, oh, excuse me, this is an architect, and barberini was the pope, a member of the barberini family,verything can explain and tell, and you know, it’s good that we have such a section: people who changed the world, where every time we learn about our compatriots, we find out how they changed this world, we look: ivan melish was born in 1921 into a peasant family in polesie in the village of glinishche, gomel region. ivan began his path in literature with poems published in the thirties in republican and regional newspapers. in 1940 melizha was drafted into the army. it was at the front that his talent for prose emerged. while being treated in a tbilisi hospital, ivan wrote the story the last operation, meeting in the hospital. in 1952 , melish published his first major novel, the minsk direction, in which he described the liberation of belarus from the nazi invaders during operation bagration. in 1970 over the years the work has been significantly revised. the description of events has become more multifaceted and large-scale, the characters of the main characters have also become mo